{"id":13276,"date":"2026-08-20T17:43:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=13276"},"modified":"2026-08-23T22:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:36:40","slug":"empires-world-exclusive-digger-cover-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/empires-world-exclusive-digger-cover-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire\u2019s World-Exclusive Digger Cover Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Cruise has appeared on the cover of Empire<\/em> many times over the years, often in different guises. In full navy get-up for A Few Good Men<\/em>. Long-haired, circa Interview With The Vampire<\/em>. In Japanese armour for The Last Samurai<\/em>, and a battle-mech suit for Edge Of Tomorrow<\/em>. Several appearances for Mission: Impossible<\/em> movies, sometimes surrounded by flame, others riding a motorbike in mid-air. But among those \u2013 and many other \u2013 Tom Cruise covers, you\u2019ve never seen one like this. Because on the cover of the new issue of Empire<\/em>, it isn\u2019t really Tom Cruise in the traditional sense: it\u2019s Digger Rockwell.<\/p>\n

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This month\u2019s Empire<\/em> is a world-exclusive deep-dive into Digger<\/em> \u2013 the daring new collaboration between Cruise and director Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu \u2013 getting to the dark heart of their apocalyptic comedy. Inside, we speak to the director about his vision for a different kind of disaster movie, and hear the full story from Cruise on getting into the mind and body of a character like he\u2019s never played before, as Hollywood\u2019s biggest star takes his biggest swing. Plus, we speak to Sandra H\u00fcller, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman and more on inhabiting Digger<\/em>\u2019s wild world, with never-before-seen images from this year\u2019s boldest original movie. Check out the newsstand cover in full here:<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s not all \u2013 also in this issue, we get the full story on Marvel\u2019s new T\u2019Challa in Black Panther III<\/em>, go into the belly of the beast on Whalefall<\/em>, get a status update on Aaron Sorkin\u2019s The Social Reckoning<\/em>, step into the ring with Street Fighter<\/em>, get existential with VisionQuest<\/em>, take a bite with Bad Apples<\/em> star Saoirse Ronan, start a revolt with Andrew Garfield on The Uprising<\/em>, and much more. You won\u2019t want to miss it.<\/p>\n

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Empire<\/em>\u2019s Digger<\/em> issue comes to newsstands from Thursday August 27. Pre-order a copy online here. Digger<\/em> comes to cinemas from 2 October.<\/p>\n

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Tom Cruise has appeared on the cover of Empire many times over the years, often in different guises. In full navy get-up for A Few Good Men. Long-haired, circa Interview With The Vampire. In Japanese armour for The Last Samurai, and a battle-mech suit for Edge Of Tomorrow. Several appearances for Mission: Impossible movies, sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13278,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions\/13278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}